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    Frank Nagle

    Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

    • April 2005 (Revised July 2005)
    • Case

    Ilene Lang and the Catalyst Search (A)

    By: Myra M. Hart and Laura L. Nash
    Catalyst, the nonprofit organization dedicated to championing women in professional ranks, is searching for a new president--only the third in its 42-year history. Ilene Lang, a corporate executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in high-tech... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Work-Life Balance; Job Search; Gender; Service Industry
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    • 04 Feb 2020
    • Video

    Güler Sabancı

    Güler Sabancı, CEO of one of Turkey’s largest family-owned business groups, Sabancı Holding, discusses the values of her group towards social responsibility. She talks about how the Sabanci Foundation was... View Details
    • 2022
    • Book

    Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    This book offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent... View Details
    Keywords: Purpose; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Culture
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    • August 2016 (Revised February 2017)
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    Songy 2011: Restructuring to Survive (or, Surviving to Restructure?)

    By: Charles F. Wu
    In 2011, Songy Partners, an Atlanta-based real estate developer, was facing three distressed investments within their portfolio each with distinct sets of challenges. Having weathered a myriad of issues during the global financial crisis that included operational... View Details
    Keywords: Real Estate; Distressed Debt; Global Financial Crisis; Foreclosure; Partnership; Partners and Partnerships; Valuation; Global Range; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Property; Financial Crisis; Real Estate Industry; Atlanta
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    • 03 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

    members—Deepak Malhotra, an authority on negotiation strategy; Noel Maurer, an expert on the politics and economics of the energy business; and Magnus Thor Torfason, an authority on how behavior is influenced by the social structures of... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
    • September 13, 2023
    • Article

    The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker

    By: Nitin Nohria
    Chief executives are responsible for guiding corporations, so the role inevitably requires making many decisions. But people overestimate the level of personal involvement CEOs have in this process. Instead of making decisions, CEOs tend to shape decisions, by... View Details
    Keywords: Problem Solving; Delegation; Leadership Style; Decision Making; Time Management; Power and Influence
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    • June 2004 (Revised June 2004)
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    Utah Symphony and Utah Opera: A Merger Proposal

    By: Thomas J. DeLong and David L. Ager
    Anne Ewers, general director of Utah Opera, is awaiting the decision of the members of the board of the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera about whether to merge Utah's top two arts organizations. If the vote favors the merger, Ewers will be asked to assume the helm of the... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Management; Fine Arts Industry; Music Industry; Utah
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    General Management Program (GMP)

    By: Stefan H. Thomke
    As global business challenges become more complex, companies are turning to exceptional general managers who can take on greater cross-functional responsibilities and contribute to corporate growth on a more strategic level. Moving beyond your field of expertise,... View Details
    • February 2015 (Revised August 2016)
    • Case

    Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
    "Not another Bochum." Nokia Board Chairman Jorma Ollila was clear in the goals he set for the 2011 restructuring that Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, had decided was necessary to address the dramatically changed competitive environment the company faced in smartphones... View Details
    Keywords: Layoffs; Plant Closure; Outplacement; Shared Value; Business or Company Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Restructuring; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 29 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Research Symposium 2014

    Speaking up at work; a manager's responsibility to capitalism; a strategy to fix the health care system. These were the presentation topics at the 2014 Faculty Research Symposium. At first blush, they may sound a bit disjointed. But a... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
    • Research Summary

    Non-Financial Incentives

    My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

    • 28 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

    "In some sense people in these societies are running faster than their rules and laws can keep up. So they are creating the rules as they go along. And entrepreneurship is, after all, doing things in new ways, ahead of social norms... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • January 2009 (Revised May 2011)
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    China Mobile's Rural Communications Strategy

    By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, G.A. Donovan and Tracy Manty
    China Mobile was the world's leading mobile communications service provider with over 400 million customers. In some cities, its penetration rate was over 100%. With such huge successes, Chairman Wang Jianzhou was exploring ways to expand its customer base. Nearly... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Investment; Rural Scope; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Telecommunications Industry; China
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    Overview

    Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) is a course about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external... View Details
    Keywords: International Economy; Macroeconomics; Political Economy
    • 2009
    • Case

    The Prediction Lover's Handbook

    By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
    When picking assessment tools to inform better decisions about future paths, executives are faced with a wide variety of options--some of which are well established, while others are in early stages of development. The authors provide an insider's guide to prediction... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction
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      Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States

      The late 20th century saw a dramatic shift in the criminal justice system of the United States. While incarceration rates had remained stable through the 1960s, they quintupled by the 2000s to 707 per 100,000, far... View Details
      • April 1990
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      Philip Morris Companies' ""Bill of Rights"" Sponsorship Program

      By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
      Describes the new policy of the National Archives of inviting corporate cosponsorship of historic exhibits and commemorations. In November 1989, Philip Morris Companies (PM) became the first cosponsor of the bicentennial commemoration of the Bill of Rights, and used... View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Brands and Branding; Decisions; Advertising; Marketing Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Financing and Loans; Reputation; Nonprofit Organizations
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      • January 2010 (Revised March 2011)
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      Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year?

      By: Lakshmi Iyer and Matthew C. Weinzierl
      In response to the economic and financial crisis of 2008–2009, the Federal Reserve greatly expanded the scale and scope of its activities. Though lauded by many experts for its actions, the Fed and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, faced harsh criticism from some public... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Central Banking; Governance Controls; Policy; Crisis Management; Power and Influence; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      Dissertation: Speaking Up on Boards

      My dissertation examines individual and group behavior in corporate boards of directors. I focus on individual traits and group traits that can foster or inhibit the act of speaking up when an individuals views go against the general consensus in the room. Research and... View Details